Parish Noticeboard Makers In Monkseaton, Somerset

Monkseaton is an area of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, in the North East of England. Historically in Northumberland, it is in the north-east of the borough, 3⁄4 mile (1.2 kilometres) from the North Sea coast and 1+1⁄2 mi (2.5 km) north of the River Tyne at North Shields. One mile (1.5 kilometres) to the north of Monkseaton, the extensive built-up areas of North Tyneside change abruptly into green accomplice stretching north into south-east Northumberland. It is at an height above sea level of 130 feet (40 m) above sea-level.

Monkseaton pre-dates the Tyneside coastal resort of Whitley Bay, originally recorded as estate owned by the Priory of Tynemouth. The first documentary references to Monkseaton medieval village date from the in front 12th century (c.1106–16) when Henry I granted Seton, later to be renamed Monkseaton, to Tynemouth Priory. It was a substantial village in the late 13th century, when Monkseaton Manor was one of ten manors of Tynemouth Priory, with fifteen bondsmen, ten cotmen and three freeholds listed in 1292.